Nicola De Giosa

Nicola De Giosa (born May 15, 1819 in Bari ; † July 7, 1885 ibid) was an Italian composer and conductor.

De Giosa had flute lessons in his childhood, which he continued from 1834 at the Conservatorio S. Pietro a Maiella in Naples with Pasquale Bongiorno . He also studied composition there, first with Francesco Ruggi and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , and later with Gaetano Donizetti . On the occasion of the death of Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg, the compositions Una lacrima sulla tomba del conte di Gallenberg for soprano, choir and orchestra and Inno funebre for four voices, choir and orchestra were created for a composition competition of the Conservatory . Due to arguments with the director Saverio Mercadante , De Giosa had to leave the conservatory without a degree, but made his successful debut in 1842 with the opera La casa degli artisti at the Teatro Nuevo .

This first work was followed by fifteen other operas, most of which premiered in Naples with great success. From 1860 to 1867, De Giosa led the orchestra of the Teatro S. Carlo in alternation with Giuseppe Puzone , where he led the first performances of the operas Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi , The Prophet by Giacomo Meyerbeer and Faust by Charles Gounod . 1868-69 he was director of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. After another year at the Teatro San Carlo, he worked from 1870-71 as orchestra director of an Italian theater company at the Viceroyal Theater of Cairo.

From 1872 De Giosa directed the orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. On his return to Naples in 1875 he was director of the Teatro Sannazzaro . Here he performed in a number of comical Italian operas a. a. Gioacchino Rossini's Il turco in Italia and Donizetti's symphonic Scherzo Triangolo e Tamburo as part of a concert series by the Nuova Società orchestral . In 1876 he ended his career as a conductor and spent the last years of his life in Bari.

Stage works

• La casa di tre artisti (Libretto: Andrea Passaro ), Commedia buffa per musica, 1842
• Elvina (Libretto: Almerindo Spadetta ), Melodramma semiserio, 1845
• Ascanio il giojelliere (Libretto: Giuseppe Sesto Giannini ), Melodramma, 1847
• Le due guide (Libretto: Marco D'Arienzo ), Melodramma, 1847
• Don Checco (Libretto: Almerindo Spadetta), Opera buffa, 1850
• Folco d'Arles (Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano after Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo ), Melodramma tragico, 1851
• Guido Colmar (Libretto: Domenico Bolognese ), Tragedia lirica, 1852
• Ettore Fieramosca (libretto: Domenico Bolognese), Tragedia lirica, 1855
• Isella la modista (LibrettO: Leopoldo Tarantini ), Opera giocosa, 1857
• Un geloso e la sua vedova (Libretto: Ernesto Del Preite ), Commedia lirica, 1857
• Lo zingaro (librettist unknown), Melodramma tragico, 1859
• Il bosco di Dafne (Libretto: Michelle Achille Bianchi ), Dramma giocoso, 1864
• Il marito della vedova , 1870
• Il pipistrello (Libretto: Enrico Golisciani after PJB Coudard Desforges ), 1875
• Napoli di Carnovale (Libretto: Marco D'Arienzo), Opera giocosa, 1876
• Il conte di S. romano (Libretto: Enrico Golisciani), Dramma lirico, 1878
• Rabagas (Libretto: Enrico Golisciani after Victorien Sardou ), Opera parodia, 1882

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• Bianca Maria Antolini:  DE GIOSA, Nicola. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
• Andrea Lanza:  De Giosa, Nicola. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• List of stage works by Nicola De Giosa based on the MGG at Operone
• Nicola De Giosa at Operissimo